{"id":4805,"date":"2013-12-10T05:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2013-12-08T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T00:11:28","slug":"daily-post-irish-rail-weed-spraying-train-fiddown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-irish-rail-weed-spraying-train-fiddown\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Irish Rail Weed Spraying Train, Fiddown"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Old Weed Sprayer was Good Sport.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my all-time favorite Irish Rail subjects was the annual weedspraying campaign. Every spring, a Bo-Bo would be allocated to haul the ancient looking contraption that functioned as the weed spraying train. Over the period of several weeks this would gradually make its way across the network.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail 175 leads the Weedspraying train near Fiddown in May 2003. Exposed on Fujichrome using a Contax G2 Rangefinder with 45mm lens. Slide scanned with Epson V600; the contrast was manipulated globally and locally in post production to improve overall appearance of the image. The chevrons on the front of the locomotive were icons of the weed-spraying campaign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Highlights of the campaign typically included travel over a variety of lines closed to traffic and this made for high adventure! [scene censored to protect the innocent]<\/span>. I also made countless images of the train on regularly used lines.<\/p>\n

Yet, finding the train could be a challenge, as it often didn\u2019t hold to its program. Equipment difficulties were among the cause for delay.<\/p>\n

On this bright morning in the second week of May, several of us had intercepted locomotive 175 with the spray train at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary and followed the train toward Waterford. I made this image from the Fiddown bypass just east of the old station at Fiddown. The distant signal for Fiddown gates can be seen in the distance.<\/p>\n

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